A powerful earthquake of 8.8 degrees on the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russiahas caused tsunamis and tsunamis alerts throughout the Pacific region.
The earthquake, which occurred in the morning of Wednesday, had a depth of about 20 kilometers and was 119 km southeast of Petropávlovsk-Kamchatski, a Russian city of more than 160 thousand inhabitants, As reported RT.
The Geophysical Service of the Academy of Sciences Russia valued The magnitude of the earthquake in 8.7 and described it as the strongest in the region since 1952, while the United States Geological Service then updated the measurement to 8.8 degrees.
After the main earthquake, several replicas have been recorded, some strong with values above 6 and 7 degrees, according to press media. In the beaten area the authorities were evaluating infrastructure damage, although no fatal victims had been reported, although injured.
The first waves of tsunamis impacted the coastal area of Sévero-Kurilsk, on the Russian island of Isla Paramushir, where places of settlement and a fishing company were flooded, according to Sputnik.
The arrival of tsunami waves to the Kuriles islands, in the Russian Pacific, and the Isla de Hokkaido, in northern Japan, as well as Hawaii and Alaska, in the United States. In these territories the authorities ordered the evacuation of coastal areas – until about 2 million people in Japan – and called to take “urgent measures to protect lives and properties.”
A wide chain of Tsunami alerts is maintained throughout the entire Pacific, which includes the aforementioned countries, to others such as Taiwan, the Philippines, the small island nations of the region, as well as the west coast of the United States and Canada, and Latin American countries such as Mexico, Ecuador and Chile.
The Tsunamis (CAT) alert center of the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) of Mexico issues an alert for the Mexican Pacific coasts after the earthquake of magnitude 8.8 in the Russian Peninsula of Kamchatka.https://t.co/zcht2e2zgj pic.twitter.com/kbqr4c5ip0
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